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To Be Quite Honest · 01-19-2014, 03:48 PM

I wasn't the one who changed the historical context.

I get your position. There is deep history behind the word and it's hard to leave it in the past.

There is a Professor that teaches an entire course on the term.

Neal A. Lester, dean of humanities and former chair of the English department at Arizona State University

In my courses, I’m more interested in raising questions than in finding answers to them. I think the questions lead to potential self-discovery. It’s not about whether or not a person uses the n-word. I try to move the class beyond easy binaries—“Well, blacks can use it, but whites can’t.” That line of thinking doesn’t take us very far at all. What we are trying to do, at least the way I have conceptualized and practiced this discovery, is so much more. The class strives to teach us all manner of ways to talk about, think about and to understand ourselves, and each other, and why and how we fit in the rest of the world.

It's more about moving past the race card then anything and we have a long way to go.

01-19-2014, 03:48 PM	#14
To Be Quite Honest Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2010 Exp:	I wasn't the one who changed the historical context. I get your position. There is deep history behind the word and it's hard to leave it in the past. There is a Professor that teaches an entire course on the term. Neal A. Lester, dean of humanities and former chair of the English department at Arizona State University In my courses, I’m more interested in raising questions than in finding answers to them. I think the questions lead to potential self-discovery. It’s not about whether or not a person uses the n-word. I try to move the class beyond easy binaries—“Well, blacks can use it, but whites can’t.” That line of thinking doesn’t take us very far at all. What we are trying to do, at least the way I have conceptualized and practiced this discovery, is so much more. The class strives to teach us all manner of ways to talk about, think about and to understand ourselves, and each other, and why and how we fit in the rest of the world. It's more about moving past the race card then anything and we have a long way to go.